In the Sacred Calendar year 100040, Franz succeeded as the Duke of Snow Moon, and the continental situation was vastly different from thirty years prior.
The Three Kingdoms in the Central Continent, struggling to survive in the cracks, after a long period of civil war, finally reached a ceasefire agreement at the negotiation table under the mediation of the Human Alliance.
Peace arrived, but the Three Kingdoms in the Central Continent, greatly weakened, have been delisted from the continent's major powers.
Although they maintain the facade of kingdoms, their international status has plummeted, and their say is less than even some duchies.
The once Continent's Ten Kingdoms have now become a thing of the past. The era when a hundred countries of the Human Race competed has now become history.
If thirty years ago was the Spring and Autumn period for the Human Race, then now it has entered the Warring States period.
